An Embodiment of a Practice: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy

• In Event: Roundtable Session 7
  In Roundtable Session: Portfolios and Reflection in Teaching and Teacher Education SIG

Abstract

This study explores how four teacher educators - an African American lesbian, a Deaf White man, a multilingual Muslim woman, and a White woman – created culturally sustaining pedagogy by co-teaching an undergraduate education course intentionally focused on embodied representations of diversity and practice, and engaged in collective teaching dialogues with predominantly White pre-service women. In doing so, this study contributes to the conception of culturally sustaining instruction as not only an ideological representation, but also as an embodiment of practice in teacher education programs centered on social justice.

Authors

• Bettina L. Love, University of Georgia

• Patrick J Graham, Western Oregon University

• Shakhnoza Kayumova, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

• Rebecca Ann Smith, University of Georgia - Athens